SALINA, KAN. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of a Chick-fil-A ground lease in Salina, located in central Kansas, for $1.6 million. The 3,000-square-foot property is located at 2245 S. 9th St. The Chick-fil-A was newly constructed in 2016 and features a 15-year ground lease. Craig Fuller, Scott Wiles and Erin E. Patton of Marcus & Millichap marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a New York-based private fund. Adam O’Sullivan, Nathan D. Whalen, Damien Yoder and Jeremie Johnson, also of Marcus & Millichap, represented the buyer. Greg Bates, broker of record in Kansas City, assisted in closing the transaction.
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POMPTON LAKES, N.J. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Pompton Mall, a retail property located at 14 Wanaque Ave. in Pompton Lakes. A private investor sold the 7,870-square-foot property for $2.3 million. Ben Sgambati, Alan Cafiero and John Moroz of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller. The buyer was an undisclosed private investor.
For the first time in quite a while, the Birmingham office market has experienced a rejuvenation and resurgence, catered around growth, a diversification of the tenant base and an effort to attract and retain bright young minds. Like many markets nationally, the city’s focus on urban renewal has made downtown Birmingham an attractive place to live, work and play, and thus will help companies attract talent to the market. Birmingham has entered a new era of industry and residential growth with one of the Southeast’s most dynamic markets after evolving from a historically steel and manufacturing-focused economy. Driven by a new generation of local leaders who have focused on developing biotechnology, life sciences and automotive sectors as catalysts for growth, Birmingham has witnessed a remarkable economic transformation. A preference for dynamic locations to live, work and play is occurring in Birmingham, as a significant amount of development has taken place in downtown Birmingham. While the bulk of this activity is occurring on the multifamily side, the same factors that draw people to live downtown are expected to positively impact the desire of employees to work downtown. In the long run, it is reasonable to expect office development to take off …
Throughout his 32-year career, Fred Cordova has purchased, sold, financed, developed and leased more than 6.5 billion square feet of real estate. As the executive vice president of brokerage services at California-based Kennedy Wilson, Cordova currently specializes in the retail sector. Western Real Estate Business caught up with Cordova at ICSC RECon in late May to get his thoughts on how traditional brick-and-mortar retailers can survive the current rash of store closures. Western Real Estate Business: Can you clarify your role in the retail space? Fred Cordova: Our brokerage service really specializes in the retail space, particularly in urban retail. We excel at leasing urban retail centers and properties, including the ground floors — the huge new wave of development of multifamily in an urban environment that has spread across the country like wildfire. We’re the ones who lease the ground-floor space. We also do infill retail shopping centers, many of which need to be repurposed. On the capital side, we do a lot of sales of properties that are going to be repositioned — older properties that need to be taken down completely, or in some cases rehabbed. But in most cases those properties are razed to make room for …
BEE CAVE, TEXAS — St. Croix Capital Advisors will develop Gateway to Falconhead, an 80,000-square-foot mixed-use asset located on a 14.6-acre tract located at the corner of Ranch to Market Road 620 and Falconhead Boulevard in the Austin metro of Bee Cave. Construction recently began on the six-building project, which will deliver office, medical and retail space. The latter is 70 percent preleased to tenants such as Westbank Dry Cleaners and Epic Nails. Southstar Bank provided financing for the property, which is expected to be ready for occupancy in the fourth quarter.
NEW BRAUNFELS, TEXAS — San Antonio-based Mason Joseph Co. Inc. has arranged $12.1 million in construction and permanent financing for The Lodge at the Guadelupe, a 124-unit apartment community that will be located at 1355 Ranch Parkway in New Braunfels. Lev Investments and T.R. Inscore LLC will develop the project and Crane Contracting Group Ltd. will serve as general contractor. HUD provided the 40-year, non-recourse loan.
DALLAS — Co-working and office space provider WeWork has opened its new regional headquarters at Thanksgiving Tower in downtown Dallas. The company leased 84,000 square feet at the 1.4 million-square-foot office tower to provide space for roughly 1,600 employees. WeWork opened its first location in Uptown Dallas in January 2017 and subsequently leased 25,000 square feet at Legacy West in Plano.
RICHARDSON, TEXAS— GI Partners has secured a 169,136-square-foot lease renewal and expansion at 3000 Waterview Parkway in Richardson for The University of Texas at Dallas’ UTDesign program. The leased properties are part of Synergy Park, a roughly 300,000-square-foot data center and office complex owned by DataCore LP, an affiliate of GI Partners. The studio will offer engineering students 56 project stations, seven conference rooms, a computer lab and a machine shop.
CCP Commercial Real Estate Buys Two Office Buildings in Metro Greenville, Jacksonville for $39.2M
by John Nelson
MAULDIN, S.C. AND JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — CCP Commercial Real Estate has purchased two office buildings in suburban Greenville and Jacksonville for a combined $39.2 million. CCP bought a 106,649-square-foot, single-story office asset near Greenville at 750 Brookfield Parkway in Mauldin for nearly $16.7 million. The Virginia Beach, Va.-based investor also acquired a five-story, 219,000-square-foot asset at 8800 Baymeadows Way West in Jacksonville for roughly $22.5 million. The Mauldin building was 92 percent leased at the time of sale, and the Jacksonville property was 81 percent leased. The identity of the seller(s) was not released.
LYNN HAVEN, FLA. — CBRE Capital Markets has secured $36.7 million in financing for Arbor Trace, a 336-unit apartment community located in Lynn Haven, a town in the Florida Panhandle near the Gulf of Mexico. The loan involved a refinance of the community’s existing 168 units and a construction take-out loan for the newly built Phase II, which spans 168 units. Glenn Housman of CBRE’s debt and structured finance team in Orlando arranged the 10-year, floating-rate, Fannie Mae loan with two years of interest-only payments.